Introduction
1．Literary Analysis︰Pride and Prejudice
2．Law and Custom︰Inheritance and Marriage
FROM︰
George C．Brodrick，English Land and English
Landlords(1881)
Sir William Blackstone，Commentaries on the
Laws of England(1765)
William Alexander，The History of Women from
the Earliest Antiquity,to the Present Time(1779)
Sir Frederick Ponock and Frederic Wmiam
Maitland,Tbe History of English Law Before the
Time ofEdward I(1898)
3．Eighteenth—Century Views of Marriage
FROM︰
Samuel Johnson，The Rambler(1750)
Daniel Defoe，Conjugal Lewdness(1727)
John Gregory，A Father﹀s Legacy to His Daughters(1774)
Lady Sarah Pennington，An Unfortunate Mother﹀s
Advice to Her Absent Daughters(1761)
Thomas Gisborne，An Enquiry into the Duties of
the Female Sex(1797)
William Godwin，Enquiry Concerning Political
Justice(1793)
Mary Wollstonecraft，Maria,or The Wrongs of
Woman(1798)
4．Unmarried Women︰Conduct and Law
FRoM︰
William Hayley，A Philosophical,Historical,and
Moral Essay on old Maids(1785)
Jane west，Letters to a Young Lady(1806)
Mary WoUstonecrkft．Thoughts on the Education
of Daughters(1787)
Mary WoUstonecraft，A Vindication of the eights
of Woman(1792)
Wmiam Alexander．The History of Women from
the Earliest Antiquity,to the Present Time(1779)
5．Women’S Education and Moral Conduct
FRoM︰
William Alexander，The History of Women from
the Earliest Antiquity,to the Present Time(1779)
Hester Chapone，On the Improvement of the
Mind(17700
Lady Sarah Pennington，An Unfortunate Mother﹀s
Advice to Her Absent Daughters(1761)
Jane West，Letters to a Young Lady(1806)
Catherine Macaulay Graham，Letters on Education(1790)
6．Pride and Prejudice︰Issues in the l980s and 1990s
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